Children have diarrhea after taking anti-inflammatory drugs

We all know that anti-inflammatory drugs are an indispensable medicine in our lives. However, medicines are easier for adults to swallow, but difficult for infants and young children to swallow. Because infants and young children have smaller voices. Many parents crush the medicine and feed it to their children. This will help your child take the medicine more easily. So what causes diarrhea in infants and young children after taking anti-inflammatory drugs?

Diarrhea is a common symptom, commonly known as "diarrhea", which means that the frequency of bowel movements is significantly higher than the usual frequency, the feces is thin, the water content is increased, the daily stool volume exceeds 200g, or contains undigested food or pus, blood, or mucus. Diarrhea is often accompanied by symptoms such as the urge to defecate, anal discomfort, and incontinence. In a normal person, about 9L of liquid enters the gastrointestinal tract every day. Through the absorption of water by the intestine, the final water content in the feces is only about 100 to 200ml. If the amount of fluid entering the colon exceeds the colon's absorption capacity or (and) the colon's absorption capacity decreases, it will lead to an increase in the amount of water excreted in the feces, resulting in diarrhea. Clinically, diarrhea is divided into two categories: acute and chronic according to the duration of the disease. Acute diarrhea develops rapidly and lasts for 2 to 3 weeks, and is mostly caused by infection. Chronic diarrhea refers to recurrent diarrhea with a course of more than two months or an interval of 2 to 4 weeks. The cause of the disease is more complicated and may be caused by infectious or non-infectious factors.

The causes of chronic diarrhea are more complicated than those of acute diarrhea. Lesions of the intestinal mucosa itself, excessive bacterial growth in the small intestine, defects in intestinal transport function, insufficient digestive capacity, intestinal motility disorders, certain endocrine diseases and extraintestinal tumors may all lead to the occurrence of chronic diarrhea. Conditions that can cause chronic diarrhea include:

(1) Intestinal infectious diseases: ① Chronic amoebic dysentery; ② Chronic bacterial diseases; ③ Intestinal tuberculosis; ④ Giardiasis, schistosomiasis; ⑤ Intestinal candidiasis.

(2) Non-infectious intestinal inflammation: ① Inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis); ② Radiation enteritis; ③ Ischemic colitis; ④ Diverticulitis; ⑤ Uremic enteritis.

(3) Tumors: ① Colorectal cancer; ② Colon adenoma (polyp); ③ Malignant lymphoma of the small intestine; ④ Amine precursor uptake decarboxylation cell tumor, gastrinoma, carcinoid, intestinal vasoactive intestinal polypeptide tumor, etc.